MrHen comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 April 2009 12:56AM

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Comment author: mattnewport 16 April 2009 04:19:56AM 0 points [-]

I've seen a few forums where a user's name is accompanied by a 'rank', often humorous, indicating standing in the community. I'm not sure whether this is generally based on number of posts or length of membership or some combination of the two but it might be apt here. I'm sure someone else can do a much better job of coming up with ranks than me but something along the lines of:

neophyte, aspiring rationalist, follower of the way, master rationalist, etc.

Comment author: Alicorn 16 April 2009 05:11:27AM 4 points [-]

Or in keeping with the martial arts theme, a series of belt colors? I know this varies from art to art and dojo to dojo, though.

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 04 January 2011 10:00:54AM 0 points [-]

It's a while afterward (and it does not seem that this idea caught on), but I think the obvious choice would be to use the EM spectrum. Describing Eliezer as a "gamma ray rationalist" seems quite fitting to me.